Stiletto (artist)

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Stiletto Studios , or Stiletto for short , bourgeois Frank Schreiner (* 1959 in Rüsselsheim ), is a German author of New German Design .

Life

Chairs 1983

From 1980 to 1981 Stiletto studied mechanical engineering at the TU Berlin . From 1982 to 1986 he studied visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts . From 1982 he was a participant and co-organizer of several neoist festivals. In 1988 he was a master student in Nam June Paik's class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and artist in residence at MoMA PS1 in New York .

His artistic focus was mainly on the use of office, hobby - and DIY technology for Mail Art , Copy Art , self-publishing artists' books , instant art , no budget film , stereoscopic photography and proprietary DIY - 3D copy graphics , Bricolage -, AV - and later also holographic installations for a time.

Stiletto's best-known work is the Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair from 1983, an "upside down" cantilever wire chair based on Charles Eames ' Wire Chair and Harry Bertoia's Diamond Chair , which, as a critically ironic design simulation based on the principle of the objet trouvé, is transformed from one by minimal interventions Supermarket shopping trolley was created. For the first time through publications by the design critic Christian Borngräber , Stiletto became known as an artist of New German Design with this and other objects from 1985 .

Before that, Stiletto was present in the context of the post-punk culture of what was then West Berlin as a media artist with short films in the experimental film festival scene such as the International Experimental Film Workshop Osnabrück . He filmed z. B. with Super 8 cameras that were thrown from an observation tower and destroyed in the process ( Camerakiller from 1984), or mockumented a motorcycle race ride through his shop apartment ( FORMULA Super VIII from 1982, which in 1983 with a simultaneous motorcycle ride through the hall of the Arsenal cinemas at the International Forum of Young Cinema at the Berlinale).

Interactive room installations such as coffee end of broadcast and TV diner , which were shown at Ars Electronica in 1991 and at the Berlin Academy of the Arts in 1994 , connect coffee house- like communication rooms with total video surveillance that is both directly visible to guests and "invisible" ones. Audio monitoring by microphones hanging over the tables, whose presence was played down surprisingly effectively by a camp- like camouflage with cheap plastic lampshades. The video installations , ironically called “ interpassive ”, were also able to be used by visitors as “ Speakers' Corner ” for uncensored, instant television broadcasts through the Berlin Open Channel .

Since the 1990s he has been running a lighting fixture construction company called DESIGN VERTReiB full-time .

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1987: Stiletto - Power through Design , Prodomo, Vienna,
  • 1989: Stiletto Studios "FUNC" , Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York City

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Exhibition design, art project developments, installations and curatorial activities (selection)

  • 1991: prodomo Design Hospital , project initiator, curator and participant (other participants invited by Stiletto: Art d'Ameublement , Käthe Be , Kain Karawahn , Paul Lincoln, X99 ), Prodomo, Vienna ( prodomo's own catalog published)
  • 1991: TV-Diner , Out of Control (together with Kerstin Quitsch, Art d'Ameublement = Rena Tangens and padeluun , Käthe Be , Kain Karawahn , Paul Lincoln, X99 and many other artists), Ars Electronica , Linz (catalog ISBN 3-85329- 907-5 )
  • 1992: Motorcycles from Zschopau - Making what is available , project management for the exhibition, workshop performance event and panel discussion; Organizer and exhibition venue within the scope of the Design Horizonte : German Design Council , Frankfurt / Main
  • 1994: Coffee end of broadcast in the TV hospital , two-month coffee house installation with daily fifteen-hour surveillance camera-based continuous image and sound transmission via ISDN to the Berlin cable television network via open channel ; Project initiator, curator and editor (other participants invited by Stiletto: Anyone who wanted to or didn't notice they were on the air; also: Kerstin Quitsch, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE , Axel Jagemann († 2016) It's a Bollerman’s World , The International Funny Farm = Laura Kikauka and Gordon Monahan and many others artists and troublemakers ), as part of X94 - Young Art and Culture , Akademie der Künste am Hanseatenweg, Berlin (Catalog ISBN 3-929139-56-1 )
  • 1996–1997: " Gsellmann'sche Weltmaschine ", stereoscopic photo installation, together with P. Russek, for the exhibition Austria im Rosennetz by Harald Szeemann , Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) , Kunsthaus Zürich , Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles

Lectures, workshops and performances (selection)

  • 1988: Workshop at the Festival of Plagiarism at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
  • 1992: Motorcycles from Zschopau - Making the Existing Visible , workshop performance event and panel discussion; Organizer and exhibition venue within the scope of the Design Horizonte : German Design Council , Frankfurt / Main
  • 2001: “Design - Problem or Solution ?!” Laudation by Stiletto on the award of the Rhineland-Palatinate 2001 Design Prize
  • 2013: "Critical information on the lamp industry and practical information on light quality", Public Domain 161 , Digitalcourage eV, Bunker Ulmenwall , Bielefeld
  • 2010, 2016: Lectures critical of design at the invitation of the Association of German Industrial Designers (VDID) in Stuttgart and Berlin

Filmography (selection)

Publications (selection)

  • Famous overnight (Ed.), 45Sekunden-Super8-Filmmagazin, self-published, Berlin 1983
  • Firewood design , a philosophical dialogue with the anarcho designer and political artist Christian Specht about " handicraft art", in: Christian Borngräber (Ed.): Berliner Design-Handbuch , Merve Verlag , Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88396-055-1 , p. 83-88.
  • prodomo Design Hospital (Red.), Ed .: Peter Teichgräber, Art Catalog No. 13, Prodomo, Vienna 1991
  • The myth of the motorcycle - on the design of the wondrous two-stroke engines from Zschopau in Design Horizonte , Frankfurt / Main 1992
  • Motorcycles from Zschopau in Gummikuh - MZ Extra , Gummikuh-Verlag, Bremen 1992, pp. 19-21
  • The open channel as a television hospital in: University of the Arts Bremen (Ed.): Positions on Design , University of the Arts, Bremen 1995, ISBN 978-85-93719-56-1 ; as well as in: Durchblick Nr. 11, Zeitschrift des Offenen Kanals Berlin, II / 1994
  • If nothing works anymore - just keep driving. MZ. in Günter Höhne (Ed.): Die divided Form, German-German design affairs 1949–1989 , Fackelträger Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7716-4421-5 , pp. 61–71

Works in public collections (selection)

  • Archive of the Avant-gardes , Dresden: Short Rest (Multiple), u. a.
  • Center national des arts plastiques , Paris, France: Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (Multiple), Honda (ceiling lamp), Satellight (Multiple), Short Rest (Multiple), Ferro Armato (forged sculpture)
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum , New York City: Champ (Multiple), Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (Multiple)
  • Die Neue Sammlung , Munich and Nuremberg: Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (deconstructive design study), Freizwinger (deconstructive design study), glow-worms (plug-in lamp ), Hüben wie Over (photo object), etc. a.
  • Kestner Museum , Hanover: Short Rest (Multiple), u. a.
  • Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin : Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (multiple), three-arm chair (deconstructive design study), a. a.
  • Museum of Applied Arts , Frankfurt am Main: Ferro Armato (blacksmith sculpture), glow worms (plug-in lamp)
  • Museum of Applied Arts , Cologne: Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (Multiple)
  • National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design , Oslo, Norway: Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (Multiple)
  • Victoria and Albert Museum , London: Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (Multiple)
  • Vitra Design Museum , Weil am Rhein: Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (deconstructive design study), Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair (multiples), Satellight (multiple), Short Rest (multiple), Panton ( noise and sound sculpture ), etc. a.

Exhibition catalogs and project documentation (selection)

  • Volker Albus, Michel Feith, Rouli Lecatsa, Wolfgang Schepers , Claudia Schneider-Esleben [eds.]: Emotional collages - living from the senses . DuMont Verlag , Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7701-1928-2 , (“Consumer's Rest” by Stiletto as title motif, and a lot more pictures and mentions in the book).
  • Cultural Department of the City of Munich [Hrsg.]: Furniture as an art object . Publishing house Dr. C. Wolf and Son, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-922979-29-6 , (“Satellight” by Stiletto as title motif, and above all, images and mentions in the book).
  • Peter Teichgräber [Ed.]: Stiletto - strength through design . Art exhibition catalog No. 5, Prodomo, Vienna 1987.
  • Michael Brynntrup: Jesus - The Film - The Book . Verlag Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-940384-58-4 , pp. 11ff, 24ff, 39ff, 42ff, 44ff, 62ff, 81ff, 88ff, 89ff, 108ff, 112ff, 150–151ff, 185ff, 237, 242 - 245 (Stilettos episodes "Healing the Blind" and "Jesus and the Fishermen"), 252 - 253.
  • Tobias Hoffmann et al. [Ed.]: Shrill Bizarr Brachial. The new German design of the 80s . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86832-244-6 , pp. 41, 45, 64, 71, 96, 144-147, 158, 165, 171, 180-181, 183, 200-209 (section "Stiletto: Ambivalence and Polyvalence" in the chapter "Rebellion through Art", Tobias Hoffmann).

Literature (selection)

  • Volker Albus, Christian Borngräber [Hrsg.]: Design balance sheet - New German design of the 80s in objects, images, data and texts , DuMont Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7701-2567-3
  • Oliver Marchart : Neoismus , Edition Selene, Klagenfurt - Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85266-038-6 , pp. 31–34, 47
  • Marion Godau , Bernd Polster , Paola Antonelli : Design Lexikon Deutschland , DuMont Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-7701-4429-5 , pp. 17, 81–82ff, 310–311
  • Gerda Breuer : The invention of the modern classic - avant-garde and eternal topicality , Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1019-1
  • Petra Eisele: BRDesign. German design as an experiment since the 1960s , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-16504-2 , pp. 166–173 (chapter “The designer as a problem-finder - STILETTO's crafting methods”)
  • Gert Selle : Design in everyday life. From Thonet chair to microchip , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38337-8 , (Chapter "Consumer´s Rest")
  • Gert Selle: History of Design in Germany , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-593-38487-0 , pp. 273-276 (chapter "Consumer´s Rest")

Press and periodicals (selection)

  • KUNSTFORUM International , Kunstperiodikum: Vol. 77/78, 1985, Cross Culture - A new tendency in art ; Vol. 82, 1986, Das deutsche Avantgarde-Design - Möbel, Mode, Kunst und Kunstgewerbe , Ed .: Christian Borngräber, pp. 130–143 (chapter “Stiletto”); Vol. 93, 1988, Art and Ecology ; Vol. 99, 1989, Design III: Deutsche Möbel , Ed .: Christian Borngräber, pp. 145–149 (chapter “Stiletto”); Vol. 121, 1993, Art and Humor II ; Vol. 130, 1995, Pandoras Box: Design ; Vol. 179, 2006, On the Topicality of the Idyllic I ; Vol. 213, 2012, irony
  • Gert Selle: The "industrial ideology" in the things and in the head of the designer - "Design history as fate" , a "design-philosophical" comparison between THONET model no. 14 , Marcel Breuer's steel club chair B3 and stilettos "Consumer's Rest", issue 1 / 87, BDK -MITTungen, Hannover 1987, pp. 5-14

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/horobin_apt_9_lemon.html#@1503-1511
  2. ↑ http://idioideo.pleintekst.nl/Book1982Wurzburg.html
  3. ↑ https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/neoism/deff.htm
  4. ↑ Kunstforum International, Vol. 82, 1986, "Das deutsche Avantgarde-Design", Ed .: Christian Borngräber, pp. 130-143 (chapter Stiletto ) ( online ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstforum.de
  5. ↑ a b c d Explanation of the film screening and book presentation Who says that concrete doesn't burn, have you tried it? , 2008 in the Arsenal cinema (Memento from January 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Stiletto Studio's: “The test image as an interpassive communication service” in: Durchblick No. 11, Zeitschrift des Offenen Kanals Berlin, II / 1994
  7. ↑ a b reports from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE on Stilettos Design Hospital projects Blue-Milk Canal / Coffee End of broadcast, TV Hospital , 1994, Academy of Arts, Berlin; Project descriptions 177 to 183 , (on Seven by Nine Squares homepage)
  8. ↑ Illustrated short descriptions by the artistic collaborator of various projects by Stiletto, Kerstin Quitsch, 1988–2004
  9. ↑ X 94 - Young Art and Culture , Stiletto Studio's: Der "Blaumilchkanal" , pp. 122–123, Akademie der Künste , Berlin, 1994, ISBN 3-929139-56-1
  10. ↑ Letter from Florian Cramer to Stewart Home of 25/10/95 about one of the many " interpassive " "sleeper sleepers" cable TV live broadcasts from the "open couch" of the "coffee broadcast end"
  11. ↑ tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE on the concept of interpassivity in a book review of Florian Cramer's book "Anti-Media"
  12. ↑ Documentation of the exhibition Les avant-gardes du mobilier: Berlin with poster image ( consumer´s rest motif ) on the website of the Center Georges Pompidou , accessed on April 18, 2018
  13. ^ Page of the Museum of Modern Art , New York Illustration Short Rest and short text about stilettos Multiples Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair and Short Rest as part of the MoMA exhibition Century of the Child , 2012
  14. ↑ Martin Roth et al. [Ed.]: German Design - Glossary , p. 119, Koenig Books, London 2018, ISBN 978-3-96098-279-1
  15. ↑ Consumer´s rest in the use of the design-critical early education for the age group 5–7 years in the context of the exhibition Driven by German Design , Qatar, 2017–2018 ( design didactic work brochure of the Volkswagen Group in cooperation with the Qatar Museums )
  16. ^ Stiletto Studios [Red.]: Prodomo Design Hospital , Ed .: Peter Teichgräber, catalog no. 13, Prodomo, Vienna 1991
  17. ↑ Page of ars electronica 1991 on Stiletto's project TV Diner (German version )
  18. ^ TV report on the TV-Diner project
  19. ↑ Stewart Home [1] Mention of the Festival of Plagiarism at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig from June 8 to 10, 1988
  20. ↑ Stiletto: "Design - Problem or Solution ?!" , laudation for the award of the Rhineland-Palatinate Design Prize on December 6, 2001, page of the Design Forum Rhineland-Palatinate (descom) , ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  21. ↑ https://digitalcourage.de/public-domain/public-domain-161-mehr-licht
  22. ↑ Announcement text for the VDID lecture event “Are Makers the Retro-Modern Consumers of the Future?” , Galerie first first , Berlin 2016
  23. ↑ Announcement text for the VDID lecture event "Gaining time through design sales or the transoriginal anti-original in post-irony" , Villa Grisebach, Berlin 2016 Berlin
  24. ↑ Famous overnight full-length movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZfMOzz03ng
  25. ↑ Michael Brynntrup: Jesus - Der Film - Das Buch , pp. 39ff, 44ff, 62ff, Vorwerk 8 publishing house, Berlin, 2014, ISBN 978-3-940384-58-4
  26. ↑ http://www.lomholtmailartarchive.dk/networkers/stiletto/1984-00-00-stiletto
  27. ↑ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=simpleSearch&cqlMode=true&query=idn%3D551164514
  28. ↑ Helmut Höge on "Wood Journalism" in his laudation on Christian Specht's 40th birthday , taz , January 6, 2009, (online at taz.de)
  29. ↑ Illustrations and explanations of objects by Stiletto in the collection of the Avant-garde Archive as part of the exhibition "Semper, Do it yourself and other key words on building culture" at the ZfBK (Center for Building Culture Saxony), Dresden , online on the ZfBK website (Memento from 27 June 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
  30. ↑ Illustrated documentation of an exhibition of the collection of the Center national des arts plastiques (Cnap) in the Galerie Poirel, Nancy 2015–2016, with parts of the Stiletto objects purchased by the Fonds national d'art contemporain (FNAC) on the Cnap website ( accompanying exhibition catalog Zones de confort , ISBN 978-2-11-151050-0 , as a digital copy on Docplayer.fr)
  31. ^ Illustrated list of the objects by Stiletto in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York
  32. ↑ Illustration and description of the cantilever chair in the press kit for the exhibition chairs without legs . The New Collection The International Design Museum Munich visits the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin , 2012 , (digitized on Docplayer.org)
  33. ↑ Hüben wie Drüben , description of the property from a conservation point of view at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
  34. ↑ Illustrations and explanations of Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair in: Kunstgewerbemuseum - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Sabine Thümmler (Ed.): Always modern - design classics from 1825 to 1985 from the holdings of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin , pp. 226–227 , Sandstein Verlag , Dresden , 2017, ISBN 978-3-95498-360-5 , (online excerpt)
  35. ^ Knife fork spoon , catalog of the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, cutlery "Ferro Armato", p. 238 and title motif, Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach, ISBN 3-88270-069-6
  36. ^ Page of the Cologne Museums about stilettos shopping cart armchair Consumer's Rest Lounge Chair
  37. ↑ Illustrated explanation of the collection item in the context of the collection of the National Museum Oslo
  38. ^ Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970–1990 , exhibition catalog, Fig. 232, p. 259, V&A Publishing, London, 2011, ISBN 978-1-85177-662-7
  39. ↑ Sound Object Panton , for the traveling exhibition Homage to Panton carried out at the invitation of the Vitra Museum (from 1990); Image on the official Verner-Panton website (accessed November 24, 2018)
  40. ↑ http://www.artistbooks.de/suchen/suchen-autor.php?WERTAUTOR=Teichgr%E4ber%20Peter
  41. ↑ KUNSTFORUM International Stiletto in the online register of persons
personal data
SURNAME Stiletto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stiletto Studio, s (officially registered artist name); Carpenter, Frank (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept artist and lighting fixture manufacturer who is critical of design and consumption
DATE OF BIRTH 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruesselsheim